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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To construct or pave (a road) with macadam.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To cover (a road or path) with a layer of broken road-metal. See macadamization. Also spelled macadamise.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To cover, as a road, or street, parking lot, playground, or other flat area, with macadam, so as to form a smooth, hard, convex surface.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb To cover, as a road, or street, with small, broken stones, so as to form a smooth, hard, convex surface.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb surface with macadam

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  • To make a road out of snack nuts.

    May 2, 2011